Join the ODC-SCI Community to Accelerate SCI Research

The ODC-SCI accelerates progress in SCI research through sharing and re-using data generated by the ODC-SCI community, and promoting transparency, rigor and reproducibility in SCI research. Through the ODC portal you can learn about our diverse field, research methods and best practices, and stay informed on published research from the SCI community. All researchers in SCI are encouraged to join.

Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury currently has 52 labs and 166 datasets.
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Introduction to ODC-SCI

Welcome to the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury (ODC-SCI). This is a multi-funder, multi-stakeholder initiative with the goal of sharing spinal cord injury data and enabling pooled data analysis. With the growth of this community we hope to expand the amount of data sharing to promote transparency and reproducibility to promote our common goal to find a cure for SCI.

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Spinal cord injury (SCI) produces a complex syndrome characterized by loss of motor control and mobility; loss of bladder, bowel and sexual function; pathological pain; and loss of autonomy. The multifaceted nature of SCI presents a challenge for the SCI translational therapeutic pipeline. This problem of SCI complexity can be conceptualized as a big-data issue: the field needs a forum for large-scale data-indexing, data-sharing, and application of advanced analytics to catalyze SCI discoveries. To address this challenge our team has begun assembling a large multicenter, multispecies database of SCI research data spanning across a wide spectrum of SCI severities, treatments and outcomes. To fully harness the potential of SCI big-data we are building a digital infrastructure to democratize SCI data science, allowing outside researchers to access existing SCI big-data, contribute their own data, and enable access to user-friendly tools for big-data analytics for knowledge discovery within SCI research.